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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Felicitaciones!!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Muchas gracias por la información.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>saludos cordiales</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Silvia</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=hmorras@gmail.com href="mailto:hmorras@gmail.com">Héctor J. M.
Morrás</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=Lisaacs@listas.agro.uba.ar
href="mailto:Lisaacs@listas.agro.uba.ar">Lisaacs@listas.agro.uba.ar</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, May 26, 2017 8:20 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [AACS] Nominaciones - Best Paper
in Pedometrics 2016</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">Estimados colegas,</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">tengo el placer de hacerles saber que dos
trabajos en los que algunos miembros del Instituto de Suelos-INTA hemos
participado, han sido seleccionados como los mejores artículos para el
premio: </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><I>Pedometrics Award: Best Paper in
Pedometrics 2016.</I></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><I><BR></I></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">Sobre los ocho trabajos nominados para
dicho premio, los dos trabajos referidos son los de:</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><SPAN lang=FR
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">-Viscarra
Rossel, R.A., T. Behrens et al. </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">(2016). </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><BR></SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">-Angelini,
M. E., Heuvelink, G. B. M., Kempen, B., & Morrás, </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">H.J.M.</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">(</SPAN><SPAN
lang=NL
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">2016)</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN lang=NL
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><BR></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN lang=NL
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(34,34,34); FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">Aquí
a continuación agrego la comunicación sobre los ocho trabajos seleccionados,
en lo que se incluye la dirección para acceder a los textos completos.
Asímismo, incluyo los Abstracts de nuestros dos trabajos
nominados.</SPAN><BR></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN lang=NL
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(34,34,34); FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">Como
verán, hasta el 15 de junio también es posible votar por el mejor
artículo.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(34,34,34); FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif"><BR></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(34,34,34); FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">Cordiales
saludos,</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(34,34,34); FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">Héctor
Morrás</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">Vote for the Best Paper in
Pedometrics 2016<U></U><U></U></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">D G Rossiter, Chairman Pedometrics
Awards Committee<U></U><U></U></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">Pedometrics commission of the
International Union of Soil Sciences<U></U><U></U></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><I><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">e-mail: </SPAN></I><SPAN
lang=EN-US><A href="mailto:dgr2@cornell.edu" target=_blank><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">dgr2@cornell.edu</SPAN></I></A></SPAN><SPAN
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04-May-2017<U></U><U></U></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">Dear fellow
Pedometricians,<U></U><U></U></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><U></U><U></U></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">The Pedometrics Awards committee
for the best paper award (Grunwald, McBratney, Oliver, Rossiter, Yang)
received a strong response to our call for nominations: 26 papers spread over
sixteen journals. These were scored by the committee. Because of the large
number of excellent submissions we’ve decided to present the
top <B>eight </B>papers for your reading pleasure and evaluation.
These are a good mix of pedometrics: novel and low-cost proximal sensing, a
global spectral library, landscape complexity using spatial adjacency graphs,
Bayesian spatial modelling, boundary-line analysis, structural equation
modelling for digital soil mapping, and sampling optimization. Reading these
papers will bring you up-to-date on some of the most exciting developments in
pedometrics published in 2016.<U></U><U></U></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><U></U><U></U></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">Both the 2015 and this 2016 awards
will be presented at Pedometrics 2017 (25<SUP>th</SUP>anniversary of the first
Pedometrics conference) in Wageningen (NL) 26 June through 1 July 2017 (see
information at </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US><A
href="http://www.pedometrics2017.org/" target=_blank><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">http://www.pedometrics2017.<WBR>org</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">).<B>Please send in your
votes for the best paper 2016 by
15-June-2017</B>.<B><U></U><U></U></B></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><U></U><U></U></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">Please <B>rank</B> the
papers in the “instant runoff” system: first choice, second choice, etc. up
till the last paper you are willing to vote for, i.e., the last paper that you
think would deserve the award. Votes should then be sent to me from a
traceable e-mail address (to prevent over-voting). I will apply the instant
runoff system</SPAN><A title=""
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lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">[1]</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"> to determine the
winner. A co-author may <B>not</B> vote for her/his own paper(s).
What defines “best”? It’s up to you to decide, but I think the best paper
should be the one that most advances pedometrics.<U></U><U></U></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><U></U><U></U></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">The papers are listed here in order
of <B>DOI</B>.<U></U><U></U></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><U></U><U></U></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN lang=DE
style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">Lark, R. M., &
Milne, A. E. (2016). </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">Boundary line analysis
of the effect of water-filled pore space on nitrous oxide emission from cores
of arable soil. <I>European Journal of Soil
Science</I>, <I>67</I>(2), 148–159. </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US><A
href="https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.12318" target=_blank><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">https://doi.org/10.<WBR>1111/ejss.12318</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><U></U><U></U></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><U></U></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN-LEFT: 21pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"></SPAN><BR> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">Lobsey, C. R., &
Viscarra Rossel, R. A. (2016). Sensing of soil bulk density for more accurate
carbon accounting. <I>European Journal of Soil
Science</I>, <I>67</I>(4), 504–513.</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US><A
href="https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.12355" target=_blank><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">https://doi.org/10.<WBR>1111/ejss.12355</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><U></U><U></U></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><U></U><U></U></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN-LEFT: 21pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN lang=FR
style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">Viscarra Rossel, R.A.,
T. Behrens et al. </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">(2016). A global
spectral library to characterize the world’s soil. <I>Earth-Science
Reviews</I> 155, 198–230. </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US><A
href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2016.01.012" target=_blank><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">https://doi.org/10.<WBR>1016/j.earscirev.2016.01.012</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><U></U><U></U></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><U></U><U></U></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 21pt" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><FONT size=1>Soil provides
ecosystem services, supports human health and habitation, stores carbon and
regulates emissions of greenhouse gases. Unprecedented pressures on soil from
degradation and urbanization are threatening agro-ecological balances and food
security. It is important that we learn more about soil to sustainably manage
and preserve it for future generations. To this end, we developed and analyzed
a global soil visible–near infrared (vis–NIR) spectral library. It is
currently the largest and most diverse database of its kind. We show that the
information encoded in the spectra can describe soil composition and be
associated to land cover and its global geographic distribution, which acts as
a surrogate for global climate variability. We also show the usefulness of the
global spectra for predicting soil attributes such as soil organic and
inorganic carbon, clay, silt, sand and iron contents, cation exchange
capacity, and pH. Using wavelets to treat the spectra, which were recorded in
different laboratories using different spectrometers and methods, helped to
improve the spectroscopic modelling. We found that modelling a diverse set of
spectra with a machine learning algorithm can find the local relationships in
the data to produce accurate predictions of soil properties. The spectroscopic
models that we derived are parsimonious and robust, and using them we derived
a harmonized global soil attribute dataset, which might serve to facilitate
research on soil at the global scale. This spectroscopic approach should help
to deal with the shortage of data on soil to better understand it and to meet
the growing demand for information to assess and monitor soil at scales
ranging from regional to global. New contributions to the library are
encouraged so that this work and our collaboration might progress to develop a
dynamic and easily updatable database with better global coverage. We hope
that this work will reinvigorate our community's discussion towards larger,
more coordinated collaborations. We also hope that use of the database will
deepen our understanding of soil so that we might sustainably manage it and
extend the research outcomes of the soil, earth and environmental sciences
towards applications that we have not yet dreamed
of.<U></U><U></U></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><U></U><U></U></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><U></U><U></U></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">Phillips, J. D. (2016).
Identifying sources of soil landscape complexity with spatial adjacency
graphs. <I>Geoderma</I>, <I>267</I>, 58–64. </SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US><A href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2015.12.019"
target=_blank><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">https://doi.org/10.<WBR>1016/j.geoderma.2015.12.019</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><U></U><U></U></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><U></U><U></U></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN-LEFT: 21pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">Musafer, G. N., &
Thompson, M. H. (2016). Optimal adaptive sequential spatial sampling of soil
using pair-copulas. </SPAN><I><SPAN lang=ES-TRAD
style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">Geoderma</SPAN></I><SPAN
lang=ES-TRAD
style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">, <I>271</I>,
124–133</SPAN><SPAN lang=ES-TRAD
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">.</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US><A
href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2016.02.018" target=_blank><SPAN
lang=ES-TRAD
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">https://doi.org/10.<WBR>1016/j.geoderma.2016.02.018</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"></SPAN><SPAN
lang=ES-TRAD
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><U></U><U></U></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN lang=ES-TRAD
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><U></U><U></U></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN-LEFT: 21pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN lang=ES-TRAD
style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">Poggio, L., Gimona, A.,
Spezia, L., & Brewer, M. J. (2016). </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">Bayesian spatial
modelling of soil properties and their uncertainty: The example of soil
organic matter in Scotland using
R-INLA. <I>Geoderma</I>, <I>277</I>, 69–82. </SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US><A href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2016.04.026"
target=_blank><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">https://doi.org/10.<WBR>1016/j.geoderma.2016.04.026</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><U></U><U></U></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><U></U><U></U></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN-LEFT: 21pt" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"></SPAN><BR> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">Angelini,
M. E., Heuvelink, G. B. M., Kempen, B., & Morrás, </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">H.J.M.</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">(</SPAN><SPAN
lang=NL
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">2016). </SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">Mapping
the soils of an Argentine Pampas region using structural equation
modelling.<I>Geoderma</I>, <I>281</I>, 102–118. </SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><A
href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2016.06.031" target=_blank><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">https://doi.org/10.<WBR>1016/j.geoderma.2016.06.031</SPAN></A></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'times new roman',serif"><FONT size=1>Current digital soil
mapping (DSM) methods have limitations. For instance, it is difficult to
predict a large number of soil properties simultaneously, while preserving the
relationships between them. Another problem is that prevalent prediction
models use pedological knowledge in a very crude way only. To tackle these
problems, we investigated the use of structural equation modelling (SEM). SEM
has its roots in the social sciences and is recently also being used in other
scientific disciplines, such as ecology. SEM integrates empirical information
with mechanistic knowledge by deriving the model equations from known causal
relationships, while estimating the model parameters using the available data.
It distinguishes between endogenous and exogenous variables, where, in our
application, the first are soil properties and the latter are external soil
forming factors (i.e. climate, relief, organisms). We introduce SEM theory and
present a case study in which we applied SEM to a
22,900 km<SUP>2</SUP> region in the Argentinian Pampas to map seven
key soil properties. In this case study, we started with identifying the main
soil forming processes in the study area and assigned for each process the
main soil properties affected. Based on this analysis we defined a conceptual
soil-landscape model, which was subsequently converted to a SEM graphical
model. Finally, we derived the SEM equations and implemented these in the
statistical software R using the latent variable analysis (lavaan) package.
The model was calibrated using a soil dataset of 320 soil profile data and 12
environmental covariate layers. The outcomes of the model were maps of seven
soil properties and a SEM graph that shows the strength of the relationships.
Although the accuracy of the maps, based on cross-validation and independent
validation, was poor, this paper demonstrates that SEM can be used to
explicitly include pedological knowledge in prediction of soil properties and
modelling of their interrelationships. It bridges the gap between empirical
and mechanistic methods for soil-landscape modelling, and is a tool that can
help produce pedologically sound soil maps.<U></U><U></U></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif"><FONT size=1>Lark,
</FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">R. M. (2016). Multi-objective
optimization of spatial sampling. </SPAN><I
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">Spatial Statistics</I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">,</SPAN><I style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">18</I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">, </SPAN><I style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">Part
B</I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">, 412–430. </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><A
href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spasta.2016.09.001" target=_blank><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida bright',serif">https://doi.org/10.<WBR>1016/j.spasta.2016.09.001</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN
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